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You're still talking about him?
Blahhhhhh...

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QuoteUnder a contract from the Clinton campaign, the Fusion GPS research firm was paying the wife of a senior Department of Justice official as part of its efforts to gather opposition research on Trump, and the same official then brought that research to the FBI.



Knowledge of the relationship has raised questions about the extent to which the firm may have paid for heightened access to the criminal justice system, and whether they would have hired Nellie Ohr absent her spousal connection to the DoJ.



A declassified memo said Bruce "Ohr's wife was employed by Fusion GPS to assist in the cultivation of opposition research on Trump. Ohr later provided the FBI with all of his wife's opposition research, paid for by the DNC and Clinton campaign via Fusion GPS. The Ohrs' relationship with Steele and Fusion GPS was inexplicably concealed from the" court when it was used to obtain a surveillance warrant.



Bruce Ohr was deputy associate attorney general until December. House investigators determined that he met personally with Glenn Simpson, Fusion GPS' founder.



The FBI has limited resources to deal with a firehose of information, so people seeking the FBI's attention could potentially benefit from greasing the wheels in order to get info to the front of the queue and to a high level.



"The money sweetened the pot for the Ohrs, and it certainly made it easier for Fusion to get the dossier to be used before the court if they made that payment to Bruce Ohr's wife," former judge and Texas GOP Rep. Louie Gohmert told The Daily Caller News Foundation,



"Fusion had to have known that because of the relationship between Bruce Ohr and his wife, they were bringing Fusion, the DOJ and the DNC together under one roof to work for the same goal, which was to stop Donald Trump from becoming president," he said.



Ohr's wife, Nellie, is a Russia expert, but it is not known what her specific contribution to the dossier was.



"The financial arrangement between Mrs. Ohr and Fusion GPS gives the appearance of government-for-hire," said Tom Anderson, an ethics expert at the conservative-leaning watchdog group the National Legal and Policy Center. It "appears to be a sophisticated scheme to get access to the highest levels of our government ... ensuring the use of government resources in an attempt to influence an election."



Parties seeking to hide ethically questionable payments often write the checks to a family member. Since spouses generally share assets, payments to one benefit the other, and paying the spouse can make the payments less obvious or harder to trace.



Nellie did not return a message left on a number listed as her home phone number asking what contribution she made to the dossier.



Getting information into the hands of law enforcement through the family member of an official could have potentially also limited the paper trail showing how it wound up in FBI hands, and fingerprints tying it back to Fusion GPS, the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.



Gohmert, who is a member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, said he believes that Ohr and other officials already harbored anti-Trump inclinations, but the money could have helped push him over the edge to take a leading role. "It was a way to reward people that thought like them. They enriched themselves and their friends."



Voter registration data shows Nellie has been a registered Democrat in the past.

http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/04/fusion-gps-ohr/?utm_medium=email">http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/04/fusio ... dium=email">http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/04/fusion-gps-ohr/?utm_medium=email

The US needs a special counsel to investigate the special counsel.

Anonymous

Quote from: "Shen Li"
QuoteUnder a contract from the Clinton campaign, the Fusion GPS research firm was paying the wife of a senior Department of Justice official as part of its efforts to gather opposition research on Trump, and the same official then brought that research to the FBI.



Knowledge of the relationship has raised questions about the extent to which the firm may have paid for heightened access to the criminal justice system, and whether they would have hired Nellie Ohr absent her spousal connection to the DoJ.



A declassified memo said Bruce "Ohr's wife was employed by Fusion GPS to assist in the cultivation of opposition research on Trump. Ohr later provided the FBI with all of his wife's opposition research, paid for by the DNC and Clinton campaign via Fusion GPS. The Ohrs' relationship with Steele and Fusion GPS was inexplicably concealed from the" court when it was used to obtain a surveillance warrant.



Bruce Ohr was deputy associate attorney general until December. House investigators determined that he met personally with Glenn Simpson, Fusion GPS' founder.



The FBI has limited resources to deal with a firehose of information, so people seeking the FBI's attention could potentially benefit from greasing the wheels in order to get info to the front of the queue and to a high level.



"The money sweetened the pot for the Ohrs, and it certainly made it easier for Fusion to get the dossier to be used before the court if they made that payment to Bruce Ohr's wife," former judge and Texas GOP Rep. Louie Gohmert told The Daily Caller News Foundation,



"Fusion had to have known that because of the relationship between Bruce Ohr and his wife, they were bringing Fusion, the DOJ and the DNC together under one roof to work for the same goal, which was to stop Donald Trump from becoming president," he said.



Ohr's wife, Nellie, is a Russia expert, but it is not known what her specific contribution to the dossier was.



"The financial arrangement between Mrs. Ohr and Fusion GPS gives the appearance of government-for-hire," said Tom Anderson, an ethics expert at the conservative-leaning watchdog group the National Legal and Policy Center. It "appears to be a sophisticated scheme to get access to the highest levels of our government ... ensuring the use of government resources in an attempt to influence an election."



Parties seeking to hide ethically questionable payments often write the checks to a family member. Since spouses generally share assets, payments to one benefit the other, and paying the spouse can make the payments less obvious or harder to trace.



Nellie did not return a message left on a number listed as her home phone number asking what contribution she made to the dossier.



Getting information into the hands of law enforcement through the family member of an official could have potentially also limited the paper trail showing how it wound up in FBI hands, and fingerprints tying it back to Fusion GPS, the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.



Gohmert, who is a member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, said he believes that Ohr and other officials already harbored anti-Trump inclinations, but the money could have helped push him over the edge to take a leading role. "It was a way to reward people that thought like them. They enriched themselves and their friends."



Voter registration data shows Nellie has been a registered Democrat in the past.

http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/04/fusion-gps-ohr/?utm_medium=email">http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/04/fusio ... dium=email">http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/04/fusion-gps-ohr/?utm_medium=email

The US needs a special counsel to investigate the special counsel.

This whole thing is as messed up as a dog's breakfast.

cc

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/02/05/nunes-sets-sights-on-state-department-next-says-fisa-memo-only-phase-one.html">Nunes sets sights on State Department next, says FISA memo only 'phase one'



"Phase one of our investigation was getting to the FISA abuse.



What we're looking at now is the State Department and some of the irregularities there," Nunes said Monday, noting that the committee has "several other areas" to probe.



[ I hope and assume that they look into the InJustice Dept ]
I really tried to warn y\'all in 49  .. G. Orwell

Anonymous

Quote from: "cc"http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/02/05/nunes-sets-sights-on-state-department-next-says-fisa-memo-only-phase-one.html">Nunes sets sights on State Department next, says FISA memo only 'phase one'



"Phase one of our investigation was getting to the FISA abuse.



What we're looking at now is the State Department and some of the irregularities there," Nunes said Monday, noting that the committee has "several other areas" to probe.



[ I hope and assume that they look into the InJustice Dept ]

And the Democrats will cry how exposing the corruption and abuse in the DOJ, FBI and state department harms the integrity of the investigation.

cc

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I really tried to warn y\'all in 49  .. G. Orwell

Anonymous

Quote from: "cc"yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

That's exactly how the CBC spun it.

Wazzzup

[size=150]Adam Schiff Implies That An Oklahoma City-Style Bombing Could Happen Because Of FISA Memo[/size]

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OTOH Here is a media hack montage calling the memo a Dud and a nothing burger.

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So which is it? a horrible thing the release of which could cause an oklahoma city ctyle bombing, or a nothing burger dud?????



get your story straight people!

Anonymous

Quote from: "Wazzzup"
That depends on how it affects the dementocrats at the midterms.

Anonymous

Stephen Colbert is progtard slime. He is the biggest apologist for the deceitful corrupt actions of the Clintons, the FBI and the DOJ.

cc

Dunno how press and performers think it is their duty to sell progism rather than report genuine news or genuinely entertain





A morning coffee for these progs



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I really tried to warn y\'all in 49  .. G. Orwell

Anonymous

Quote from: "cc"Dunno how press and performers think it is their duty to sell progism rather than report genuine news or genuinely entertain





A morning coffee for these progs



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 :thumbup:

Anonymous

Quote from: "iron horse jockey"Stephen Colbert is progtard slime. He is the biggest apologist for the deceitful corrupt actions of the Clintons, the FBI and the DOJ.

Stephen Colbert is about as honest as the McCarthyian witch hunt against this president that he defends.

Anonymous

And Mueller is investigating Trump??





CHARITY BACKED BY SILICON VALLEY TECH TITANS GAVE $500K TO FUSION GPS-LINKED GROUP



https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/13/silicon-valley-charity-fusion-gps-trump/?utm_medium=email">https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/13/sili ... dium=email">https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/13/silicon-valley-charity-fusion-gps-trump/?utm_medium=email



A former Senate Intelligence Committee staffer who has worked with Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele quietly formed a pro-democracy nonprofit group in 2018 called Advance Democracy Inc.

A Daily Caller News Foundation investigation found that a multi-billion dollar charity backed by Silicon Valley tech titans donated $500,000 to the group last year.

The staffer operates a similar charity called The Democracy Integrity Project, which receives funding from George Soros. He allegedly told one associate that the group operates as a "shadow media organization" that works with the U.S. government.

A Silicon Valley charity gave $500,000 to a nonprofit group founded by a former Senate staffer who is working with Fusion GPS and Trump dossier author Christopher Steele.



The Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF), which has received significant funding from tech industry billionaires, gave the donation in 2018 to Advance Democracy Inc., a Virginia-based 501(c)(3) group, according to a database the recipient group runs.



A Daily Caller News Foundation investigation found that Advance Democracy shares the same address as The Democracy Integrity Project (TDIP), another nonprofit group started by a former Senate Intelligence Committee staffer for California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Daniel Jones.



Mystery surrounds both of Jones's operations. The identities of both groups' donors have largely been kept secret, as Jones has avoided revealing his backers.



The secrecy would appear at odds with Advance Democracy's website description that it is an "independent, non-partisan organization that promotes accountability, transparency, and good governance in the United States and around the world."



Jones created TDIP on Jan. 31, 2017, according to registration records filed in Washington, D.C. Through that group, Jones partnered with Fusion GPS and Steele to continue a private investigation into President Donald Trump and Russia. One goal of the organization, Jones told the FBI, was to provide information to the media, lawmakers and the FBI.



Jones, who worked for Feinstein on the Senate Intelligence Committee through 2015, allegedly told one associate that his operation worked as a "shadow media organization" with the U.S. government, TheDCNF previously reported. He also took credit for planting anti-Trump stories in the press.



Jones formed Advance Democracy on Jan. 29, 2018 — four days after then-Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley identified Jones in letters seeking information related to Steele's dossier regarding Trump's alleged relationship with Russia.



It's unclear why Jones created two separate organizations. While the two groups share the same Virginia address registered to Jones, they have different tax statuses with the IRS. TDIP is a 501(c)(4), meaning that donations are not tax-deductible, in contrast to Advance Democracy, a 501(c)(3).



Jones also operates The Penn Quarter Group, a Washington, D.C.-based "research and investigative advisory" firm.



It is also unclear who is ultimately behind the SVCF contribution to Advance Democracy. The foundation, whose donors include Silicon Valley tech titans, lists grant recipients in an online database, but does not identify who funded each grant.



A spokeswoman for SVCF declined to disclose the donor. Jones did not respond to TheDCNF's request for comment.



Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has donated nearly $2 billion in his company's stock to SVCF since 2010, according to Forbes, including $214 million in November 2018. Twitter and Square founder Jack Dorsey contributed $21 million in Square stock in 2015, and Netflix founder Reed Hastings gave $100 million in 2016. Google co-founder Sergey Brin gave $10 million in 2015.



Starbucks founder and potential 2020 presidential candidate Howard Schultz gave $1 million in 2014. J.B. Pritzker, the Democratic governor of Illinois, gave $605,000 in 2016 through his family foundation, according to Forbes, which pulled donor information from Security Exchange Commission filings.



SVCF uses donor-advised funds to accept donations and make grants. Donors receive an immediate tax benefit for contributions, many of which are made in the form of stocks and other assets, but can distribute funds on a longer timeline than would be required at a traditional private foundation. They can also recommend who receives the grants using their donations.



The funds, known as DAFs, also provide an extra layer of anonymity for donors compared to a foundation funded by an individual or family. Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat, has said that the donor-advised fund industry fosters "identity laundering."



SVCF has more than 1,000 donor-advised funds, a spokeswoman for the group told TheDCNF.



The contribution to Advance Democracy is the first donation to the Jones group to be revealed. TDIP received $1 million from progressive billionaire financier George Soros in 2017, while the Fund for a Better Future, a Sacramento-based dark money group in California, contributed $2,065,000 to TDIP that same year.



Jones's activities have slowly trickled into public view over the past year.



After Grassley, an Iowa Republican, identified Jones in his January 2018 letter, The Federalist reported that Jones was working with Fusion GPS and Steele to investigate Trump. On April 27, 2018, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence released a report that quoted from an interview that Jones conducted with the FBI in March 2017.



According to the report, Jones told FBI agents that he had raised $50 million from between seven and 10 donors from California and New York to "continue exposing Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. Presidential election."



Jones said he hired Fusion GPS and Steele and "planned to share the information he obtained with policymakers ... and with the press."



In a text message provided to TheDCNF, Jones took credit for the publication of anti-Trump news stories. In one text that linked to a March 17, 2017, Reuters article, Jones said that "our team helped with this."